Hit The Ground Running

I'm like a lot of people, I like a story that hits the grounding running. In other words, the action starts on the first page. In my Sheriff to Call Her Own, the Heroine is sitting in a jail and fervently claiming her brother's innocence.

Then in The Preacher's Son, the heroine is watching the hero fight in the streets. But in Shadow Healer, the heroine is trudging along Atlanta's streets with a slow build of action. That worries me. But at the same time, some books need a slow start for the big ending and SH certainly does that.